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On Oct 3, 8:59=A0pm, Richard Ferguson <senorcorre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My goodness, I just got back to look at this site. =A0With the greatest
> trepidation, I'll respond again.
>
> For the person who questioned the Oiorpata, go to this site:http://www.wo=
a.tv/articles/hi_amazonexist.html
>
> Here is an excerpt: "On vases, the Amazons are depicted much like another
> enemy of the Greeks, the Persians-skimpy, smooth-cheeked creatures wearin=
g
> spotted trousers and pointy Phrygian caps. Greeks, on the other hand, are
> pictured half-naked, beautiful and, above all, ultra-macho. Some scholars
> claim that the Amazon myths were designed to show that reversing the
> =93natural=94 (which in ancient Greece meant male-dominated) order would
> always lead to disaster.
>
> But in the second half of the twentieth century, archaeologists Renate
> Rolle and Jeannine Davis-Kimball separately uncovered evidence that
> challenged this theory. In the steppe-land surrounding the Black Sea (now
> Ukraine and Russia), they discovered graves of women buried with
> classically female accoutrements as well as weapons such as bows and
> arrows, daggers and swords. Excited scientists determined that these women
> were Sauromatians or Scythians, nomadic horse-riding races named by
> Herodotus as part of the Amazons=92 ancestry.
>
> Finally, archaeologists had evidence that warrior women existed in an area
> where Greek authors situated some of the original Amazons. But these Iron
> Age kurgans (grave mounds) also contained skeletons of men and
> children=97a major departure from the Amazons of Greek legend, who were
> Oiorpata (man killers) that lived apart from men. Rolle uncovered one
> grave that contained a young woman with a baby on her breast. The remains
> left little doubt that the woman was a warrior (the finger bones of her
> bow-pulling hand were worn and weapons were found by her side). These
> warlike women could have served as the basis for the Amazon myth, but with
> some other characteristics thrown in by the Greek authors for good
> measure=97such as man killing and separatism. But where might these more
> dramatic aspects of the Amazonian legend have come from?"
>
> To the parsing of my sentence. =A0The first time I said it, I said he was
> knocked back by the impact. =A0The second time I didn't.
>
> It's a
>
> >>>> fact that Kennedy bounced off the back seat after he was shot. =A0I tried
> >>>> looking at the film frame by frame and couldn't see his head move forward
> >>>> after the shot.
>
> =A0 I wanted to make it a true statement whether you agree it was from th=
e
> impact or not. =A0I shouldn't have muddied it by throwing in that I could=
n't
> see his head move forward. =A0That wasn't meant to be included as a fact.
>
> I will add that I fired expert on all ranges in the Army, including firin=
g
> from the hip at pop-up targets with an M-1. =A0I spent part of my youth o=
n a
> ranch in the Mogollon mountains of New Mexico. =A0I went hunting with my
> father and others many times and shot both white-tailed deer and mule
> deer. =A0I have to observe that when I shot a mule deer broadside, hittin=
g
> it in line with the heart but a little high so the bullet hit its backbon=
e
> and shoulder blades, it was knocked sideways and flat on its side. =A0I w=
as
> either firing a thirty-thirty or a thirty-forty at the time. =A0When I (o=
r
> others) made a clean heart shot, the deer either stood for a short time
> and collapsed or ran a short distance and collapsed.
>
> When I was in the Army, there were officers and sergeants who had been in
> WWII. =A0They said the Japanese doped up soldiers and sent them to sneak
> into the officers quarters, then run through and shoot as many officers a=
s
> they could before they were killed. =A0The officers said they had
> thirty-eights and could hit the Japanese soldiers but couldn't stop them.
> They'd sometimes take a number of shots before stopping. =A0So the Army
> issued forty-fives to the officers. =A0After that, they said the forty-fi=
ve
> bullets would stop the Japanese soldiers or knock them down. =A0That seem=
s
> to suggest that bullets actually can have an impact.

In case you want to write a sequel......

http://www.ctka.net/reviews/russell_review_2.html

CJ